California Schools Move Toward Man-Made Global Warming Indoctrination
Reading, writing and . . . global warming?
A Silicon Valley lawmaker is gaining momentum with a bill that would require “climate change” to be among the science topics that all California public school students are taught.
The measure, by state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, also would mandate that future science textbooks approved for California public schools include climate change.
“You can’t have a science curriculum that is relevant and current if it doesn’t deal with the science behind climate change,” Simitian said. “This is a phenomenon of global importance and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon.”
The state Senate approved the bill, SB 908, Jan. 30 by a 26-13 vote. It heads now to the state Assembly. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken numerous actions to reduce global warming, but he has yet to weigh in on Simitian’s bill. Other Republicans in the Capitol, however, are not happy about the proposal.
Some say the science on global warming isn’t clear, while others worry the bill would inject environmental propaganda into classrooms.
“I find it disturbing that this mandate to teach this theory is not accompanied by a requirement that the discussion be science-based and include a critical analysis of all sides of the subject,” said Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, during the Senate debate.
Only two Republicans voted for the bill, Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-San Luis Obispo, and Sen. Tom Harman, R-Costa Mesa. Maldonado’s district includes Los Gatos, Morgan Hill, parts of San Jose, Scotts Valley, Watsonville and Monterey. Harman represents Orange County. All 13 of the no votes were from Republicans.
One of the opponents, Sen. Jeff Denham, R-Modesto, said he wants guarantees that the views of global warming skeptics will be taught.
“Some wouldn’t view them as skeptics. Some would view them as the right side of the issue,” said Denham, an Atwater almond farmer who also runs a plastics recycling business.
“We don’t have complete factual information yet,” Denham said. “From what I have seen the Earth has heated and cooled on its own for centuries. I don’t know that there’s anything that is a direct cause of that right now, but we can do a better job of cleaning up our planet.”
Simitian noted that his bill wouldn’t dictate what to teach or in what grades, but rather would require the state Board of Education and state Department of Education to decide both.
Although global warming is mentioned in high school classes about weather, it is currently not required to be covered in all textbooks, said the head of the California Science Teachers Association.
“This is a great idea. I don’t think there’s any reason to talk about politics,” said Christine Bertrand, the group’s executive director. “There’s no argument that there is climate change. The argument is how much is caused by the activities of mankind.”
Bertrand said teachers would have plenty to discuss: rising levels of carbon dioxide, how temperatures are measured globally, and what is known and not known about global warming.
Meanwhile, the 10 hottest years - ranked by global surface temperature - since 1880 all have occurred since 1995, according to the National Climatic Data Center, a federal agency in North Carolina.
In 2005, America’s most prestigious scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences, issued a statement with the headline “Climate change is real.” It was signed by the national scientific academies of Japan, Britain, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, India and Brazil. Citing direct measurements of air and oceans, along with melting glaciers, it noted:
“There is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring. . . . It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities. This warming has already led to changes in the Earth’s climate.”
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To read the bill, go to www.senate.ca.gov, click “legislation” and type SB 908.
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“Meanwhile, the 10 hottest years - ranked by global surface temperature - since 1880 all have occurred since 1995, according to the National Climatic Data Center, a federal agency in North Carolina.”
February 18th, 2008 at 7:27 amTo bad the above paragraph is incorrect.
See Junkscience.com
Many real scientists beleive that the “average global temp” has not increased since the 90’s. Many real scientists that know the Sunspot, cosmic ray- cloud formation, correlates to the temperature record. They are observing lowest sun-spot activity now. They are not sky is falling we are going to have another Ice age, but are predicting cooler global temps with the new sun cycle. Less sunspot, less energy, more cosmic ray cloud formation, cooler temps. To counter the leftist propaganda, you can buy a book aimed at kids on Junkscience website, I bought one for my kids to use when the propaganda starts here in NC.
It’s going to be difficult to separate political agendas from science. I’ll bet there won’t be an equivelent to the Fairness Doctrine employed.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:28 amanother example of the left using schools to indoctrinate people… the only way people can believe this shit is if they are brainwashed and told every day that GW will kill them…
foil-heads!
February 18th, 2008 at 7:47 amOf course they ARE spending far too much time on math and reading and actual SCIENCE in the schools today … Oh, and history, just way too much time on documented history. And OUR kids ARE so far ahead of the rest of the world in proficiency test scores in those subjects that it just isn’t fair …
I GUESS “SOME” DEGREE OF FOOKING FICTION IS NEEDED TO BALANCE OUT THE INSANITY THAT IS GOVERNMENT FUNDED, TEACHERS’ UNION DICTATED PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION!!!
***(I don’t think I need to point out to anyone on this site that my “sarc” button is always on auto-pilot)
February 18th, 2008 at 7:47 amAnother reason for vouchers…
February 18th, 2008 at 7:54 amWho needs reading writing and arithmetic when the STATE tells you what to think?
Anybody need some Prozium? (10 points for the reference)
February 18th, 2008 at 8:09 amWOOOOOOOOOOOO! Lets go socialist groupthink!
(Don’t mind my sarcasm, I’m working on the holiday today!
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Pit Bull
February 18th, 2008 at 8:09 amOkay class, watch the watch.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:37 amYour getting sleepy, very sleepy….
Hey Little Johnny, it is heating up, as you know global warming is coming and I can see you are too!
February 18th, 2008 at 8:54 amBetter go to the school nurse to get your condoms before you over-heat.
Home-work tonight is: Tell us why Al Gore and his carbon credits are a good thing.
No math, English, history, or science home work tonight, ok?
Need I say more about the abilities of the California Public Education System than this?
http://www.worldfreeinternet.net/news/nws188.htm
February 18th, 2008 at 9:24 amI am on the lenght of waves as Fan ; I made a research a few weeks ago on the subject :
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/SC24/PressRelease.html
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080103/94768732.html
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1371&category=Science
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/A_Backward_Sunspot_Near_The_End_Of_Solar_Cycle_23_999.html
February 18th, 2008 at 1:05 pm